Negative Questions in Chinese.

Yat-shing, Cheung

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Publication Date: 1974

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Negative Questions in Chinese

Yat-shing, Cheung

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2, 3, 325-339, Sep 74

Mainly concerned with where negative questions in Chinese originate.An abstract treatment allows the derviation of all questions from a general underlying structure with disjunctive pattern and accounts for the discordance between the answer to a negative question and its answer particle. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence Structure, Surface Structure, Syntax

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